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Röling Lecture: War, Peace and Human Rights – Michael O’Flaherty

When:We 10-12-2025 19:30 - 21:00Where:Aula Academy Building, Broerstraat 5, Groningen

On International Human Rights Day, Rick Lawson, chair of the National Human Rights Institute and professor of European Protection of Human Rights at Leiden University, will deliver the second annual Röling Lecture.

His lecture is titled: ‘Bulwark or Castle made of sand? Protecting human rights in a post-peace era’. His lecture promises to provide a sharp and expert view of current events and the relevance of human rights after peace and for peace.

The Röling Lecture is held annually, partly in connection with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (10 December 1948), and is named after Bernard Röling (1906-1985).

Programme

Time
Activity
7.15 p.m.
Walk-in and reception
7.30 p.m.
Welcome by Wilbert Kolkman, Dean of the Faculty of Law
7.40 p.m.
Röling Lecture by Michael O’Flaherty
8.30 p.m.
Interview by Paul van Sasse van IJsselt
8.45 p.m.
Questions and answers with the audience
9 p.m.
End

Language: English
Admission: Free

You are kindly invited to attend this Lecture; your presence will be greatly appreciated.

Not necessary, but helpful it is, when you fill out the registration form.

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